Planetscale
Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
1mo ago
Remotepostgresdatabaseautomationscalingdisaster recovery
Software Engineer role focused on building and maintaining a managed Postgres service platform with high availability, disaster recovery, and scaling solutions.
Responsibilities
- You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
- You will build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures.
- You will tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest and most demanding workloads in the world.
- You will build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows - and participate in an on-call rotation.
- You will work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
- Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Ruby, Python, Zig or Rust.
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
Conditions
- An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.
Other
- PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform delivers a fully managed, multi-cloud Postgres service designed for the most demanding production workloads. We handle the complexity of provisioning, scaling, replication, and failover - so engineering teams can focus on building their products.
- Our customers entrust us with their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Postgres engineering team and help us build a world-class managed Postgres offering.
- You have strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production.
- You have an excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance.
- You have strong fundamental computer science skills and can reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
- You thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring other engineers, and communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly.
- You are self-motivated and can work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions.
- Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.
- Experience with connection pooling and proxy layers for Postgres.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.
- Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Postgres or database infrastructure space.
- Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams.
- Previous experience at a high-growth technology company.
- We're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale—and we work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Software Engineer, you'll be at the core of building the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.
- At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.
- If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!